What cars make kids think they are fast?

[GrimJack]

I mean, when they really are NOT. Years ago, this was the Ford Escort - every kid who owned one thought he'd managed to get his hands on a race bred Cosworth, when in reality they were all driving the same ho-hum econobox cars.

With the Escort phased out, and the Cosworth becoming old news that the younger kids haven't really heard of anymore, this switches to another car - in my area, it appears to be two cars, actually. The Sunfire and the Neon. Without exception, the kids driving these cars appear to think they are not only professional race drivers behind the wheel of an Indy car, but that they are also actually racing on the pro circuit!

If I actually took the time, effort, and fuel to teach all of these kids a lesson, I'd be playing broke-assed-Holmes every night because I'd be spending all my hard earned coin on gasoline.

Discuss!

 

[SupraMario]

yep, neon and sunfire is big here, civics too.,
we have more comarros and rustangs here, its sad.
just let them be, they well end up wrecking their cars.

 

[souprat]

regular lancers, not the evo, civics.

 

[aye mate]

We have alot of Focus' here. SVT and regular. Civics are big anywhere, in the county I live in there are alot of highschool age kids with some fast mustangs and GM muscle(firebirds, camaros, TAs) probably their parents cars. My area has alot of people that work for the Federal Gov.(Washington DC) so some of these kids cars are pretty quick cause their parents foot the bill for parts and labor. But most of the imports and 4 bangers are real slow.

 

[MDCmotorsports]

Mustangs. Every single little under 18 year old crap head around here seems to think his/mustang can take a corner doing 120mph and beat any thing on the street.

ITs hillarious when I have some fun with them and they ask me afterwards... "What kind of car is that?"

 

[CTsupra]

saturns, definitely saturns are all the rage now especially since they can get their hands on a sc'ed ion that can spank an rx-8. as soon as that happens they must think they have the fastest car on earth. stupid kid: "i mean c'mon man, IT'S AN RX-8!"

whoopdie do an rx-8. :rofl:

 

[Ckanderson]

celica GTS this girl i know is SURE it will spank my car...

350z... this 60 year old i know is positive even on high boost (19) he would have beeten my 60-1 7m..

 

[drunk_medic]

Civics, Neons and I've seen a few Cavaliers. Tiburons and V-6 Mustangs, too.

 

[Brewster]

Lancers, civics, mustangs, neons, e30 3 series..

 

[americanjebus]

anything ilght w/ good throttle response really, it doesnt have to hit 60, it just has to jump forward when you gun it up untill 20mph. or atleast LOOK fast

allota non turbo dsm's floating around with the full body kit, exhaust and nothing to back it up.

 

[??supra]

civics. 98+ four door accords, eclipse, and 99+ mustangs non GT or cobra your run of the mile boring stang. but then we have a few REAL nice fox body 5.0s. i'd like to actually get my hands on one of those i like the way they drive and sound

 

[supra90turbo]

lancer "OZ RALLY's!!!", cavaliers, older saturns, and contour/mystique's
and an increasing amount of uneducated people driving 3g eclipse v6's

theres one person who said they would definetely race my friend's 1g dsm when it was done... now, keep in mind that my friend is shooting for mid-10's, and he probably will hit them....
when i said that, you know what the response was?
yeah, but it's still a 4-cylinder, and it's a 91!!!
mine's a v6, and it's a 2004! i shouldnt have a problem racing a car that old...

wtf is wrong with people...

 

[92turbo4life]

im 15 n i got a 92 turbo supra so blahhhhhhhhhh i know im fast..... to all the haters in my area with thier neons/civics/and for somereason s10's n dakotas who think there v8 is a ricket ship. and i am sick of these 3rd gen eclipse's and these dam rust bucket stangs with exhaust or n e ricer with exhaust ohhhhhhhh im scared... not........92........ turbo.... supra...... life

 

[Brewster]

im 15 n i got a 92 turbo supra so blahhhhhhhhhh i know im fast..... to all the haters in my area with thier neons/civics/and for somereason s10's n dakotas who think there v8 is a ricket ship. and i am sick of these 3rd gen eclipse's and these dam rust bucket stangs with exhaust or n e ricer with exhaust ohhhhhhhh im scared... not........92........ turbo.... supra...... life

Sorry to burst your bubble, but stock supras aren't fast.

 

[americanjebus]

yea even after $1k in little things in the engine, im slower than hell.

 

[macsupra76]

I have a VW Golf for the winter, and i have noticed that ever kid with an older VW GTI or VW 1.8T on the road think there the cats ass, when really if you look at the numbers, both performance and price, there a laugthing stock of mid size sports cars. I hate winter!
On a different note: what do you guys think of the of the VW R32?

 

[CTsupra]

only vw i would ever own is the corrado. those things are sex.

 

[americanjebus]

vw makes some nice cars
rabbit gti 16v.
supercharged corrado
golf vr6
jetta glx vr6

thats about it.

 

[Brewster]

only vw i would ever own is the corrado. those things are sex.

scirocco ftw!

 

[wingman]

it's mostly old-chevy truck fanatics with the loudest exhaust they could rig up here...but the Cavalier, 2nd gen Eclipse, and Neon are the most often sighted ricers, as well as Aleros and Probes. Not so much the Sunfire's here though, probably because we don't have a pontiac dealer.